USAF Apologizes for Advertising Gun Range 'Fun Shoot' on MLK Day

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | 15 January 2016 | ANTON NILSSON

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Air Force apologizes for advertising a 'fun shoot' at range on Martin Luther King Day using image of murdered civil rights leader

- The controversial poster advertised a skeet shoot at an Air Force base in Georgia

- The flyer promised attendees would get 'two rounds and lunch' for $20 and featured a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr.

- Air Force officials issued a statement apologizing for the 'insensitive' flyer

Officials at an Air Force base in Georgia drew criticism on Thursday after posting controversial flyers advertising a 'Martin Luther King, Jr. fun shoot' featuring a picture of the civil rights leader, who was gunned down in 1968.

The flyers announced a gathering at the Robins Air Force Base Skeet Club scheduled for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. For $20, the poster promised, attendees would get 'two rounds and lunch.'

The Air Force base, which is located in the town of Warner Robins in central Georgia, released a statement on Thursday apologizing for the poster, calling it 'inappropriate' and an 'honest mistake.'

'We didn't make the flyer,' Leroy Minus told the newspaper. 'We squared it away. We got rid of the picture.'

In the conclusion of the Air Force base's statement officials said they 'hold the legacy of Dr. King in the highest regard.'

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[PROCON]

I’m sure “teens” all over the country will be “honoring” MLK in their own special thuggish way.

[MeshugeMikey]

YO YO YO this wun fo Martin Yall!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

They could have really upset the Libs if they had advertised it as the ROBERT E. LEE BIRTHDAY FUN SHOOT!

I can see the Libs foaming at the mouth right now.

[BenLurkin]

It does seem very of bone-headed.

[PROCON]

:-)

"Dang right, we pop a cap in yer ass."

[CAluvdubya]

That was some poor planning, for sure....... but funny!

[DogByte6RER]

Great timing ... I just looked it up and Robert E. Lee's birthday was on January 19, 1807.

[MeshugeMikey]

Im awaiting for The Don to Tweet that He KNEW MLK...

[Vaquero]

[dljordan]

Why do we constantly have to apologize for everything?

[Tallguy]

Stupid poster. But I doubt that the AF Co’s saw it or approved it.

[Tallguy]

Co’s = Chief of Staff

[W.]

I bought a watch from the markdown rack at Walmart, and took great delight in telling all I had a 'Martin Luther King watch!' They'd look at me quizzically and I'd show them the watch face. It was branded Remington, in their logo. Always used their catchphrase as I moved to show it--"It's a Remington!" Fun for all!

[Bryanw92]

I always go to the range on MLK Day (or as I like to call it, Robert E Lee’s Birthday). It is always crowded on that day.

[PROCON]

I’m waiting for the Don to tweet that he has a Yuuuuge security force...MLK would still be alive today if he had listened to him.

[Tax-chick]

That was a pretty bad idea.

[dfwgator]

Geez, try to honor Dr. King, and this is the thanks they get.

[MeshugeMikey]

hahaha VERY close to the reality...so to speak....of The donnie

did you know that The Donny Helped Al Gore Finance The Internet??